Box-wrapper for packages.



C. SCHNEIDER. BOX WRAPPER FOR PACKAGES.

'MPLICATICDH- FILED APR. 9. 1918- 1,292,891

' Patented Jan. 28, 1919.

2' SHEETS-SHEEI 2- WITNESSES lNl/E/WUR UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CONRAD SCHNEIDER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO INTERNATIONAL BOXWRAPPER CORPORATION, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

BOX-WRAPPER FOR PACKAGES.

Patented Jan. 28, 1919.

Application flied April 9, 1918. Serial No. 227,496.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CONRAD SCHNEIDER,

a'citizen of the United, States, and a resident of the city of New York,borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York have inventeda new and'lmproved Box-Wrapper for Packages, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to wrappers or containers for packages or parcelsand has particular reference to means for wrapping packages inlaundries, tailor shops, haberdasheries, drygoods stores, or the likewhere rapidity of operation is important as well as szfety or protectionis provided for the Among the objects, therefore, ofthe invention is toprovide a wrapper for packages that shall combine all of the features ofprotection afforded by a well made straw board box when properlyassembled and wrapped with a paper wrapper.

More specifically stated I provide a combined straw board box and sheetof wrapping paer of such a nature that the supply of t e wrappers willberetained in flat orm, thus occupying a minimum amount of space, untilthe package is to be wrapped,

than one of my improved wrappers with the commodity placed thereon andto be wrapped therein will be laid upon the wrapping table or counterand the combin ed wrapper may be readily and directly rolled or foldedinto box-form makin a stiff neat -wrapped package .and one in whlch thestraw.

board portion of the wrapper will serve automatically first-to carry thewrapping sheet end portions into a neat folding or overlapping positionand secondly will so reinforce or stiffen the entire structure as toreduce the liability of the package to bend,

' twist or crush to a minimum.

A still further object of the invention is.

to provide a combined straw board box structure and paper wrapper insuch a manner as to provide that the box structure shall facilitate themani ulation of the paper sheet cover and that said cover shallconstitute a means to hold the box in comparativxezalry rigid strainresistin position.

1th the foregoing'an other objects in view the invention consists in thearrangement and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed,and while the invention is not restricted to the exact details ofconstruction disclosed or suggested herein, still for the purpose ofillustrating a practical embodiment thereof reference is had to theaccompanying drawings, in which like reference characters designate thesame parts in the several views, and in which- Figure 1 is a plan viewof one of my improved box wrappers complete, inner face upward.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view indicating the direction in whlch the boxwrapper is folded first from the flat form; and

Figs. *3 to 7 inclusive represent succeed- V 'ing stages of the sameoperation in regular order with the wrapping or folding completed in thelast figure ready for a wrapping twine, gum binding strip, or other likesealing means.

Referring now more specifically to the drawings, I show my improvementas comprising two main portions namely an inner box-like structure 10 ofstraw board or equivalent relatively cheap stiff material and an outercovering sheet 11 of any suitable material such as Manila paper or thelike which may, if desired, carry printed matter on its outer surface.These two parts preparatory to the wrapping operation, preferably at thefactory, are secured permanently together in the relative positionsindicated in Fig. 1, by

any suitable means so that they shall always the bottom panel along thebending lines 15 and 16 respectively; top panels 17 and 18 hinged to theouter or upper edges of the side panels 13 and 14 along the bendinglines 19 and 20 respectively, and finally a pair of end panels 21 and 22hinged to the ends of the top panel 18 along the bending lines 23 and 24respectively. The whole length of the box structure in the blanktherefore is from the edge 25 to the edge 26.

The cover strip 11 of paper or the like in the form illustrated is "ofrectangular form and has a width in one direction exactly equal to thecombined length of the top panel 18and the attached end panels 21 and2/2. In the other direction, however, the cover sheet is enough longerthan the length between the edges 25 and 26 to provide the overlaps 27and 28. Thus I have shown the overlap 27 folded directly over the line25 and upon the inner face of the top panel 17, while the overlap 28 isfolded around the line 26 and upon a narrow portion of the inner or topface of the top panel 18 and end panels 21 and 22. The means I have indicated to secure the box' and cover sheet 7 portions togetherpermanently consists of pairs of staples 29 and 30. The staples 29 arepassed downward through the overlap 27, panel 17 and clenched on theouter surface of the cover sheet as shown in Fig. 2, thus leaving asmooth finish on the inside of the box. The staples 30 are passedthrough the outer face of the cover sheet then through the top panel 18and finally through the overlap 28, the points of the staples beingclenched upon what becomes -the inner face of said overlap leaving asmooth finished surface of the staples 30 on the outside of the finished.wrapper as plainly indicated in the figures of Sheet 2.

1 preferably round the points or free corners of the end panels 21 and22as indicated at 31 so as to practically obviate the likelihood of thesepoints puncturing through the corner portions of the cover sheet-in thefin- I ished package.

The use of the improvement and manner of operation may be briefly setforth as follows: The goods or commodity to be wrapped being placed uponthe inner or top surface of the bottom panel 12, the operator graspingthe side and top portions of the wrapper will bring these portions upover the commodity as suggested in Fig. 2. The top panel 17 of the boxand the cover sheet secured thereto come into place first over thecommodity, while the opposite or top panel 18 will follow immediatelybringing the overlap 28 directly down upon the top panel 17 and the edge26 coinciding with the bending line 19 as indicated in Fig. 3. So farthe wrapper is formed into tubular form of rectangular cross section,both ends being wide open. The end panels 21 and 22 of the box structurebeing attached to the. top panel 18 and lying in the same plane are thenat the top. The operator then hold- ,ing the body portion of the packagesteady will bend the end panels 21 and 22 in succession directlydownward into the position v of Fig. 4 where the free edges of thesepanels will abut squarely against the end edges of the panels 12, 13 and14, and within the surrounding cover sheet. This step completes the boxstructure,top, bottom, sides in Fig. 4, so that the final wrappingoperation may be easily and quickly completed, the triangular wingportions 32 being fold.- ed inward against the end panels by theoperators fingers as usual in the wrapping of packages, but much moreeasily than in the ordinary package because of the action of the end'panels aforesaid, leaving the final end flap or tongue 33 to be broughtupward as shown in Figs. 6 and 7 ready for the cordv or other sealingmeans.

It .will thus be seen'that I provide a box wrapper or a combined box andcover sheet of such a nature and adapted for such operation as to embodyall'of the advantages of a complete box of the form in which the bottom,side and end panels are fixed in permanent form and having a loosecover, or in the form having interlocking tongues or the like, such asare commonly used by tailors and others for packing suits, and aseparate wrapping sheet. Moreover this improvement is not only quickerto operate but it produces a stiffer finished structure than would berealized if a knock down suit box were employed and subsequently wrappedwith a sheetof paper, for the reason that the two structures 10 and 11mutually cooperate in such a manner as to provide a stiffer boxstructure than the usual knock down box and becaus the box structureitself acts to determine the folding lines for the cover sheet, andfinally the cover sheet serves to hold the box structure in form.

I claim:

1. The herein described combined box and cover sheet comprising a mainrigid body portion havin top, bottom, side and end panels all unltedalong bending lines, a cover sheet of rectangular form having endportions'arra-nged to fold over the edges of the top panel of the bodyportion, said cover portion being secured to one of said panels bystaples passing from the inner side of the panel and being clenched onthe outside and the other top panel having staples passed through thecover portion and the panel and being clenched on the inside whereby theends of the staples are hidden when the box is folded.

2. The herein described combined box'and cover sheet comprising a mainbody portion of rigid material having top, bottom, side and end panelsunited along scored bending lines, the two end panels being formed atcontinuations of a top panel, a cover sheet of rectangular form as wideas the combined length of the top panel and the attached end panelsaforesaid, the length of they cover being sufiicient to cover all of theouter surface of the box portion'and to provide end portions adapted tobe folded over the edges of the top panels of the main body portion andmeans for securing said folded over portions to said anels.

3. The herein escribed box wrapper comprising a box structure of rigidmaterial avin top, bottom, side and end panels unite along scoredbending lines, the top, bottom and side panels being foldable intotubular form around parallel lines, a cover sheet of suitableproportions to cover the exterior surface of the box structure, and

means to fasten the end portions of the cover sheet to portions of thebox structure whereby the cover sheet will be rolled into tubular formcoincidentally with the rolling of the box structure and whereby thefolding of the end panels subsequently into box formation will carrytherewith portions of the end flaps of the cover sheet, the end panelsof the box structure being brought squarely against the end edges of thebottom and side anels.

4. The herein described combined box and cover sheet comprising a mainbody portion of rigid material having top, bottom, side and end panelsunited alon scored bending lines, the two end pane s being formed ascontinuations of a top panel, a cover sheet of rectangular form as wideas the combined length of the top panel and the attached end panelsaforesaid, the

length of the cover being sufficient to cover all of the outer surfaceof the box portion and to provide end portions adapted to befolded overthe edges of the to panels of the main body portion, means or securingsaid folded over ortions to said panels, the

inner corner of t e end panels being rounded to prevent their puncturingthe cover during the folding of the box.

CONRAD SCHNEIDER.

